Felicity got the acting bug at primary school and joined Central Television’s now defunct Birmingham workshop, which offered free drama training to children.

She has described one of the tutors, Colin Edwards, as her “mentor”, after he was quick to spot her talent.

Colin said: “When a new part came up, all the young people in the group would ask me, ‘Is Felicity going up for this one?’. If I said she was they’d say, ‘Oh well we might as well not bother then, she’s bound to get it’.”